What is the scariest shit you can think of?
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Time dilation.
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
Simpsons did a parody of the concept as well.
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Prions - Actually nightmarish.
Except in developed countries. There it's more an inconvenience
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Damn. I'm deathly scared of the opposite. General anesthetic. I have the worst memory of being put to sleep forcefully, like I was dying. I'd rather stay awake
I only had one operation in my life and had to get a general anesthetic. It was pretty funny to count down from 10 and not even making it to 7. Probably the closest thing to dying i guess. Now you're here, now you're gone. But i woke up too early, but thankfully they were done. I spooked them because i was talking gibberish while still in the operation room.
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In terms of anything that does not include something related to death or torture its probably having an operation on your eye while being conscious. I know someone who had to get surgery on his eye and could see while two doctors were doing stuff on his eye. Even just hearing this scared the living shit out of me.
my uncle just had detached retina surgery with sclera buckle placement. he said to look it up on YouTube, and... AHHHHHHHHHHHH
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How would a society of immortal beings work, though, considering the already existing inequalities and rampant amoral antisocial nature of those currently in power? We kinda just have to make peace with death, right? I'm religious, and what I'm gonna say here might sound a tad heretical, but one life does feel like "enough" (of a gift, if you're religious) and I don't see a working alternative... but perhaps I'm not creative enough?
I see nothing wrong with your logic. Acceptance of death is in some peoples opinion the main function of religion.
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Non-existence.
Just thinking about not existing at all gives me this gnarly feeling of primeval fear.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Meh, something that doesnt exsist doesnt feel... well... anything. Not so bad if you ask me. I get it would suck if youve been gifted with capitalism compatible dopamine receptors.
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I only had one operation in my life and had to get a general anesthetic. It was pretty funny to count down from 10 and not even making it to 7. Probably the closest thing to dying i guess. Now you're here, now you're gone. But i woke up too early, but thankfully they were done. I spooked them because i was talking gibberish while still in the operation room.
lmao what did you say ?
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pure void - just a void, not death, a void
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Maybe (I believe so, ofc, peep the username
), but you can't "know" (and yes, I understand epistemologically "objective truths" are at least somewhat unreachable but if I don't hold the apple whilst on Earth it will inevitably fall), you just have to take it on faith.wrote last edited by [email protected]Here's a question Id like to know the answer too. Where does consciousness come from? I guess everyone has the same question but more specifically. Is it just like the testing and probing of systems in-between the movement of data or 'matter'?
Say consciousness has an echo. Like if the system was removed but the energy remains and is still experiencing entropy. As it dissipates into infinity could it maybe persist by finding a new system that is similar to the one it use to inhabit? Doesn't it do that constantly. Like the synapses that make up your consciousness arent the same synapses they were before. Consciousness latches on to itself, a continuum of processes that make it a whole. As the energy that makes up consciousness fades into nothing it travels through infinite amounts of states before we can no longer observe it and even after. If it were layered onto a 'new dimension' that was similar enough to the previous one, would it latch?
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pure void - just a void, not death, a void
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nothing, void, doesnt feel scared.
Unless it did.
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Bears. They don’t kill you right away, they just crush your face and start gobbling at your gutty works. Sometimes they leave for a bit to digest while you’re still not dead and come back to finish their meal later.
There are existential horrors and real life scenarios that are probably worse than death, but bears still take the cake for me.
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Being tied to a chair, lights and a video camera in your face with someone behind you waving a long knife, hand on your shoulder chanting Allahu Akbar over and over...
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pure void - just a void, not death, a void
If it's not death, that just sounds like the best sleep possible.
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If it's not death, that just sounds like the best sleep possible.
till you wake and try to get any form of input or stimulus from your surroundings ^*
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I see nothing wrong with your logic. Acceptance of death is in some peoples opinion the main function of religion.
It's both a tool for self restraint and social eudaimonia (especially for those who cannot conceive being righteous out of personal pride and self respect), and a way to make peace with death.
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till you wake and try to get any form of input or stimulus from your surroundings ^*
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sounds like a great place for meditation.
Pedantic thought experiment side note that is ironically long for a side note:
How is it a void if it contains the ecosystems and consciousness(ess? (Gut biome and the various microscopic skin mites, etc)) of a human body?
That's a fuck ton of biology, physics, chemistry, philosophy, etc for a space where nothing is supposed to be. Does time also exist there? Because if it didn't you couldn't be aware of your self in there, so that would be a problem solved.
If time does exist in this void though, by entering the void you will have changed its nature, it will stop being a void and it starts just being more of you. ...And if you still can't feel anything, I think this is called depression.
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Here's a question Id like to know the answer too. Where does consciousness come from? I guess everyone has the same question but more specifically. Is it just like the testing and probing of systems in-between the movement of data or 'matter'?
Say consciousness has an echo. Like if the system was removed but the energy remains and is still experiencing entropy. As it dissipates into infinity could it maybe persist by finding a new system that is similar to the one it use to inhabit? Doesn't it do that constantly. Like the synapses that make up your consciousness arent the same synapses they were before. Consciousness latches on to itself, a continuum of processes that make it a whole. As the energy that makes up consciousness fades into nothing it travels through infinite amounts of states before we can no longer observe it and even after. If it were layered onto a 'new dimension' that was similar enough to the previous one, would it latch?
I don't know if this is a question that can be answered, and certainly not a question I have an answer to (or at least not a satisfactory one besides "everything comes from the Creator", like, duh, ofc). I can tell you, from personal experience, that consciousness is not the mind, which is shaped by experience and ideology, but is behind it. A consciousness watching a mind watching a body, that's the human experience. Recent studies (with some experimental backing!) talk about 'tubules' in the structure of the neurons and quantum physics which, to me, sound promising, if you're interested (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction). And that's all the insight I can provide on the matter, sorry!
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Sounds like a great place for meditation.
Pedantic thought experiment side note that is ironically long for a side note:
How is it a void if it contains the ecosystems and consciousness(ess? (Gut biome and the various microscopic skin mites, etc)) of a human body?
That's a fuck ton of biology, physics, chemistry, philosophy, etc for a space where nothing is supposed to be. Does time also exist there? Because if it didn't you couldn't be aware of your self in there, so that would be a problem solved.
If time does exist in this void though, by entering the void you will have changed its nature, it will stop being a void and it starts just being more of you. ...And if you still can't feel anything, I think this is called depression.
let’s go with entropy exists as we know it, gravity is welcoming to a human body but there is no ground. no up or down. the arrow of time is what we know it as. it’s just an endless void where any action you take doesn’t affect your environment and the environment doesn’t affect you. lol not depression, thinking in terms of horror
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Becoming a quadriplegic or suffering from "locked in" syndrome, where I can no longer move anything myself, cannot feed myself or use the toilet, etc, just laying there, 100% dependent on other people for everything. I'd rather be dead, thanks.
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I don't know if this is a question that can be answered, and certainly not a question I have an answer to (or at least not a satisfactory one besides "everything comes from the Creator", like, duh, ofc). I can tell you, from personal experience, that consciousness is not the mind, which is shaped by experience and ideology, but is behind it. A consciousness watching a mind watching a body, that's the human experience. Recent studies (with some experimental backing!) talk about 'tubules' in the structure of the neurons and quantum physics which, to me, sound promising, if you're interested (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction). And that's all the insight I can provide on the matter, sorry!
Sorry, probably was just dumping on you but its a thought that I wanted to write down. Seize the moment, as they say.
